| Description |
xii, 196 pages ; 24 cm |
| Series |
Political analyses |
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Political analyses.
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| Contents |
Machine generated contents note: List of tables -- Series editors' foreword -- Preface --1 Understanding the health care state --2 Building the health care state --3 Governing consumption --4 Governing doctors --5 Governing technology --6 Transforming the health care state --Index |
| Summary |
"This book represents the first comparative study of how health policy is made in leading industrial nations. Using detailed case histories of the UK, the US and Germany, it shows that health care systems and modern states are indissolubly bound together. The author explains how the health care state originated before the rise of democracy, and demonstrates that it has had to confront the twin pressures of democratic politics and competitive capitalism. It focuses on three important arenas of health care politics--the government of consumption, the government of doctors, and the government of medical technology--and illustrates how these three arenas intersect."--Publisher's website |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Subject |
Medical policy -- Germany.
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Medical policy -- Great Britain.
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Medical policy -- United States.
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Health Policy.
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Cross-Cultural Comparison.
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| SUBJECT |
Germany. https://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D005858 |
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United Kingdom. https://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D006113 |
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United States. https://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D014481 |
| LC no. |
99043349 |
| ISBN |
0719042968 |
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0719042976 (paperback) |
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